Dr. Pennotti's address, which is open to all registered attendees, will take place Monday, October 24th at 4:45pm PST. Registration for the conference is now open at http://www.itexpo.com.

INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, held since 1999, is the world's largest and best-attended VoIP trade show. Last February, TMC's INTERNET TELEPHONY attracted over 6,200 buyers and sellers of IP Telephony products and services. For this upcoming October show, TMC projects total attendance to exceed 7,500.

Within Lucent's Worldwide Services division, Dr. Pennotti is responsible for network planning, design, integration, optimization and program management services. He moved to Lucent from AT&T's wireless communications business unit, where he was responsible for field introduction of the first TDMA system in the U.S. and deployment and technical support of large-scale CDMA systems. He also had global responsibility for system and field test, deployment, and technical support of GSM and UMTS systems while based in Nuremberg, Germany.

"As one of the world's leaders in designing and delivering systems, services and software that drive next-generation communications networks, Lucent is excited to be featured at the largest VoIP trade show, INTERNET TELEPHONY," states Dr. Pennotti. "I am excited to share Lucent's approach to next generation networks and our ideas for delivering new revenue-generating opportunities to the thousands of providers, buyers, resellers and developers that attend INTERNET TELEPHONY."

"Lucent Technologies is committed to easing the transition to VoIP for large-bandwidth clients," continues Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Conference Chairman for INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO. "TMC is certain that Lucent's latest developments in mobility, optical, software, data and voice networking technologies, backed by its multivendor integration services and Bell Labs research and development, will offer our INTERNET TELEPHONY attendees insight into the evolution of present-day networks to the networks of tomorrow."

Registration for the conference and trade show is now open: http://www.itexpo.com. Vendors interested in exhibiting or sponsoring should contact Dave Rodriguez immediately at 1-203-852-6800, ext. 146 or e-mail drodriguez@tmcnet.com.